The Cheka (1917−1922) — the first of a succession of Russian−Soviet state security organizations, founded during the Russian Revolution by Vladimir Lenin.

v t e Secret police agencies in the Eastern Bloc
Gulag Iron Curtain Telephone tapping in the Eastern Bloc Berlin Wall Inner German border
Soviet Union	Extraordinary Commission (Cheka) State Political Directorate (GPU) Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU) People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) Main Directorate of State Security (GUGB) People's Commissariat for State Security (NKGB) Ministry of State Security (MGB) Committee for State Security (KGB)
Albania	Directorate of State Security (Sigurimi)
Bulgaria	Committee for State Security (DS)
Czechoslovakia	State Security (StB)
East Germany	Ministry for State Security (Stasi)
Hungary	State Protection Authority (ÁVH) Ministry of Internal Affairs III
Poland	Ministry of Public Security (UB/MBP) Security Service (SB)
Romania	Department of State Security (Securitate)
Yugoslavia	Department of National Security (OZNA) Directorate for State Security (UDBA) Counterintelligence Service (KOS)

Russian Revolution and Civil War

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Revolution

Civil War

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Figures

Monarchists	Nicholas II of Russia
Provisional Government	Georgy Lvov Pavel Milyukov Alexander Guchkov
White movement	Pyotr Wrangel Alexander Kolchak Anton Denikin Pyotr Krasnov Nikolai Yudenich Lavr Kornilov
Bolsheviks	Vladimir Lenin Lev Kamenev Grigory Zinoviev Leon Trotsky Mikhail Frunze Joseph Stalin Semyon Budyonny Yakov Sverdlov Nikolai Bukharin Felix Dzerzhinsky Alexei Rykov
Right SRs	Viktor Chernov Alexander Kerensky Boris Savinkov Boris Sokoloff
Left SRs	Yakov Blumkin Boris Kamkov Mark Natanson Maria Spiridonova Alexander Antonov
Anarchists	Nestor Makhno Maria Nikiforova Stepan Petrichenko Lev Chernyi Semen Karetnyk Fedir Shchus Viktor Bilash Fanya Baron Peter Kropotkin

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